Edmund the Martyr

Eadmund (Edmund) "the Martyr" of East Anglia (840-20 November 869) was the King of East Anglia from 855 to 869, succeeding Aethelweard of East Anglia and preceding Oswald of East Anglia.

Biography
Eadmund was born to the Anglo-Saxon Christian House of East Anglia, the son of King Aethelweard of East Anglia. He married Riguistl of East Anglia, and in 855 he was crowned King of East Anglia at Bures St. Mary in Suffolk. He allied with King Aethelred of Wessex of Wessex, King Burghred of Mercia of Mercia, and King Aella of Northumbria of Northumbria against the Great Heathen Army in 867, but he was defeated at the Battle of Haegelisdun in 869. He refused the Danes' demand that he renounce Christianity, and King Ivar the Boneless of Sudreyjar beheaded him after shooting him with arrows.